How To Make Cheesy Pupusas
A five-pound bag of masa harina, lime-cured corn flour, will last forever if you only use it to make handmade tortillas. Since this Mexican corn flour is sold almost exclusively in five-pound bags, you may grow tired of tortillas. Sure, you could spend all day making delicious but labor-intensive tamales or fry your own corn chips in a gallon of canola oil, but instead, do as the Salvadorans do and make pupusas. Often filled with gooey queso fresco, these stuffed masa cakes are a popular street food from El Salvador. Easy to make and easy to transport, pupusas are the perfect snack.
Imagine a really thick sweet corn tortilla. Now imagine that thick corn tortilla lovingly stuffed with oozing cheese and fresh roasted poblano peppers. In this version, a little sugar sweetens the dough to balance the ever-so-slight heat of roasted poblano peppers.
Roasted Poblano Pupusas
Makes 8 pupusas
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